Europa Av Tim Parks

<p><b>Discover Tim Parks¿ darkly funny and deeply prescient Booker prize-shortlisted novel about the European experience. </b><br><br>A brilliantly comic and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. <i>Europa</i> follows Jerry Marlow, a middle-aged Brit teaching at an Italian university, as he and his colleagues embark on a coach trip to Strasbourg in order to petition the European Parliament for improved working conditions. <br>Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man''s soul as he''s trapped in the awful claustrophobia of the trip with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.<br><br><b>¿The best thing about </b><b><i>Europa </i></b><b>is the voice Tim Parks conjures up: Marlow''s wry, defeated reason keeps you turning the pages...reminding us that it is far easier to unite a sprawling continent than the few cubic metres that contain a human soul¿ <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>